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qila

noun

qila is spelled Q-I-L-A: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, qila means “A fort or fortress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of qila is qilas.

How many letters and syllables are in qila?

Letters4: Q-I-L-A
In writingabout once in every 35 million words; the 180,281st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is qila?

Qila appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of qila

  • qilas plural
  • quila

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does qila mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A fort or fortress.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does qila come from?

Borrowed from Urdu قِلْعَہ (qil'a), borrowed from Classical Persian قَلْعَه /قِلْعَه (qal'a).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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